FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) — Brocke Stepteau scored a career-high 24 points to lead Hawaii to a 90-79 win over Utah on Thursday night in the first round of the Wooden Legacy. Eddie Stansberry scored 13 of his 15 points in the second half for the Rainbow Warriors (4-1). Four players […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s most powerful LGBTQ support organization is planning to propose legislation that would ban gay conversion therapy for minors. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Equality Utah has drafted legislation seeking for Utah to join more than a dozen states in outlawing efforts to change a minor’s sexual […]
VERNAL, Utah (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies arrested two teenage boys they say stole a small airplane at a private airstrip in rural eastern Utah and flew about 15 miles (24 kilometers) before landing successfully at Vernal Regional Airport. The Desert News reported the 14- and 15-year-old boys stole the single-engine Cessna Thursday […]
HARRISVILLE, Utah (AP) — A 29-year-old female pedestrian has been hit and killed by a vehicle while crossing U.S. Highway 89 in Weber County. Harrisville Police Chief Maxwell Jackson identified the victim as Brittany Zoller. Her hometown wasn’t immediately available. Jackson told the Deseret News she was crossing the highway Wednesday night […]
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A 20-year-old northern Utah man has been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for forcible sexual abuse of a teenage girl. The Herald-Journal reports Christopher VanDam of Lewiston was sentenced Tuesday in Cache County District Court in Logan. He was arrested in February after an investigation […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The first of two Pacific storm systems is moving across Utah with the stronger storm expected to descend from the northern mountains with the heaviest snow early Friday and intensifying as it spreads south Saturday. A winter weather advisory remains in effect until 6 p.m. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah dance group is promising to revise its holiday show after a TV appearance that many slammed as racist toward Asians. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Odyssey Dance Theatre apologized Wednesday to “the entire Asian community and anyone else whom we may have offended.” Some […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Doing intensive mental health and substance abuse screenings for people who enter Utah county jails was identified as a top priority for state officials several years ago. But the Standard-Examiner reports the money has dried up and now lawmakers are searching for ways to find more funds. […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Luguentz Dort scored 33 points and Arizona State beat Utah State 87-82 on Wednesday night to win the heavyweight bracket of the MGM Main Event. Dort’s tally placed him third in program history for single-game scoring by a freshman, behind Mario Bennett (35 in 1992) and […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Willie Cauley-Stein scored 23 points and Bogdan Bogdanovic had 18 to help the Sacramento Kings beat the Utah Jazz 119-110 on Wednesday night. At a time in the game when previous Kings teams would wilt, this Sacramento squad outhustled, outmuscled and outshot the Jazz in […]
